Marie-Sophie Marceau is an attorney in the civil and commercial litigation group. In her practice, she appears before courts and administrative tribunals and is involved in every stage of injunctions, shareholder disputes, commercial leases and hidden defect, civil liability and dismissal cases.
By the time the patient sees a doctor, the lung cancer may already be well advanced. Stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer produces symptoms that can include shortness of breath, persistent coughing, coughing up of blood, pain in the upper body, wheezing, hoarseness, and frequent bouts of bronchitis.Patients in the advanced states of lung cancer are also susceptible to pneumonia.tage IV is the diagnosis when one or more of the following is true: (1) there are one or more tumors in both lungs; (2) cancer is found in fluid around the lungs or the heart; and/or (3) cancer has spread to other parts of the body, such as the brain, liver, adrenal glands, kidneys, or bone.
The life expectancy for someone with stage 4 liver cancer is usually only a few months with six months being the upper limit although a few people have been known to survive for longer periods.ost people do not exhibit any signs and symptoms in the early stages of liver cancer. Stage 4 liver cancer symptoms include: 1  Abnormal weight loss. 2  Loss of appetite. 3  Pain in the upper abdominal region. 4  Nausea and vomiting. 5  Chronic fatigue and general weakness. 6  Abdominal swelling. 7  Enlargement of the liver.